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Barbu
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Posted: April 23 2014 at 13:34 |
The Flower Kings
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Xonty
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Posted: April 23 2014 at 13:40 |
The Flower Kings, then Willowglass. Anglagard is way too overrated
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verslibre
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Posted: April 23 2014 at 14:05 |
Does 3 Monks count?
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genbanks
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Posted: April 23 2014 at 15:45 |
Anglagard is not my cup of tea. I like Flower Kings and Spock's Beard. But in the last years I discovered Willowglass which sounds perfect. I have the album Book of hours, just excellent, so I vote for it. Other symph bands that I like are Rocket Scientists and Par LInd Project.
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richardh
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Posted: April 23 2014 at 15:48 |
Three Monks are categorised as RPI but I would be be happy for them to be included
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Par Lindh Project Ars Nova (the Japanese band) Glass Hammer
Edited by richardh - April 23 2014 at 15:48
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genbanks
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Posted: April 23 2014 at 16:01 |
richardh wrote:
Three Monks are categorised as RPI but I would be be happy for them to be included
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Par Lindh Project Ars Nova (the Japanese band) Glass Hammer
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Yes! Glass Hammer and Ars Nova are really good symph bands too.
Another ones that I have listened and like could be
Grand Stand Echolyn Isildurs Bane Karmakanic
and the brasilian Aether and the argentinians Nexus and Laquesis, the three of them great bands.
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Wanorak
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Posted: April 23 2014 at 16:55 |
The Flower Kings by a hair over SB.
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Rick Robson
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Posted: April 23 2014 at 18:09 |
genbanks wrote:
Anglagard is not my cup of tea. I like Flower Kings and Spock's Beard. But in the last years I discovered Willowglass which sounds perfect. I have the album Book of hours, just excellent, so I vote for it. Other symph bands that I like are Rocket Scientists and Par LInd Project. |
Have you already listened to Willowglass - The Dream Harbour? It's another nice album from 2013, an all instrumental album which features an Andrew Marshall's original style. I didn't listened yet to Book of Hours, is it only instrumental too? I haven't never heard about the brasilian Aether though.
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verslibre
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Posted: April 23 2014 at 19:32 |
richardh wrote:
Three Monks are categorised as RPI but I would be be happy for them to be includedalso Par Lindh Project Ars Nova (the Japanese band) Glass Hammer
| I'll pretend I voted for Ars Nova. Transi was life-changing in '95!
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dr wu23
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Posted: April 23 2014 at 22:52 |
Of that list Spocks Beard......
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Horizons
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Posted: April 23 2014 at 22:59 |
Big Big Train or Tangent.
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Stool Man
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Posted: April 24 2014 at 04:57 |
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Big Big Train or Tangent. |
Big Big Train are listed as Crossover, Tangent are listed as Eclectic. They would otherwise both have been in the poll
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Horizons
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Posted: April 24 2014 at 10:57 |
Stool Man wrote:
Horizons wrote:
Big Big Train or Tangent. |
Big Big Train are listed as Crossover, Tangent are listed as Eclectic. They would otherwise both have been in the poll |
I know they are - but they're symphonic. As much as any of these on the list.
Crossover is a joke for BBT and i suppose Eclectic works for Tangent, but their style of Eclectic is nothing really different bands like Echolyn.
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Stool Man
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Posted: April 24 2014 at 14:17 |
Horizons wrote:
......... their style of Eclectic ......... |
Style of eclectic? Is there another definition of eclectic that I wasn't aware of? How can there be a style of eclectic?
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genbanks
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Posted: April 24 2014 at 14:23 |
Stool Man wrote:
Horizons wrote:
......... their style of Eclectic ......... |
Style of eclectic? Is there another definition of eclectic that I wasn't aware of? How can there be a style of eclectic? |
sounds funny but I think that I understand what Horizons is trying to say. Inside the Eclectic genre, there is different directions in which the genre develop itself, and that the way in which The tangent does it is not much different than the one in some bands which are into the Symph genre like Echolyn. I agree with this...
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Stool Man
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Posted: April 24 2014 at 14:27 |
ah rightio then
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genbanks
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Posted: April 24 2014 at 14:29 |
Rick Robson wrote:
genbanks wrote:
Anglagard is not my cup of tea. I like Flower Kings and Spock's Beard. But in the last years I discovered Willowglass which sounds perfect. I have the album Book of hours, just excellent, so I vote for it. Other symph bands that I like are Rocket Scientists and Par LInd Project. |
Have you already listened to Willowglass - The Dream Harbour? It's another nice album from 2013, an all instrumental album which features an Andrew Marshall's original style. I didn't listened yet to Book of Hours, is it only instrumental too? I haven't never heard about the brasilian Aether though. |
I listened something from this album and sounds great too. Book of Hours is all instrumental too, but sounds really enigmatic, melacholic and a bit medieval, is almost perfect. The title song for example is stunning.
About Aether, I have their second and last album Inner Voyages between our shadows. It is pure symphonic rock, in a vein of Camel I could say (not exactly), some tracks instrumental some tracks with some lyrics. The song Forgiveness, for example, is simply amazing. They sing in english.
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richardh
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Posted: April 24 2014 at 14:38 |
Horizons wrote:
Stool Man wrote:
Horizons wrote:
Big Big Train or Tangent. |
Big Big Train are listed as Crossover, Tangent are listed as Eclectic. They would otherwise both have been in the poll |
I know they are - but they're symphonic. As much as any of these on the list.
Crossover is a joke for BBT and i suppose Eclectic works for Tangent, but their style of Eclectic is nothing really different bands like Echolyn. |
Totally agree about BBT. Could be 'neo' at a push but how on earth did they get stuck in Crossover??!
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Posted: April 24 2014 at 15:04 |
Stool Man wrote:
Horizons wrote:
......... their style of Eclectic ......... |
Style of eclectic? Is there another definition of eclectic that I wasn't aware of? How can there be a style of eclectic? |
Somehow i don't see Beardfish, Van der Graaf Generator, Steve Hackett, and Motorpsycho as all having the same style.
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Logan
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Posted: April 24 2014 at 15:24 |
Neo is a kind of crossover.
I agree about The Tangent. I used to be on the Eclectic team and questioned whether it best belonged in that category. While it has some eclectic qualities (that's typical of Prog), the material I heard leaned to Symph. Ah well, categories are just a rough guide and the behearer can classify music as they like.
I agree about there being styles of Eclectic Prog, and that played a factor in how I evaluated music. There is no one style, there are lots of styles to be found in eclectic. Part of that depends on what genres are crossed and also what bands they can be compared to. Some are more unique than others. I tened to like the RIO/ Avant-oriented Eclectic ones best. My favourite album in Eclectic, by the way, is Jean-Claude Vannier's L'enfant assassin des mouches which has psyche qualities, but also symphonic and avant-garde qualities.
Sometimes you're analytically ticking off boxes to say that a band crosses one Prog category-styled music with another and another (and deciding that it doesn't lean to any one category enough so that it's deemed suitable for the mishmash prog category), but you're also referencing it with bands in categories. I don't know how many times I heard one and thought, hmm this has a particular Crimsonesque style, and that swayed me.
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